Word: torments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time since TutankhAmen's priests made their incantations over it, since they set his soul on the path towards Amenti, the Region of the West where Osiris waited with his 42 judges to approve its virtue and permit its passage to the Egyptian Elysium, or condemn it to torment...
...having held two other posts in the interim, he attended the Genoa conference and soon afterwards became ambassador to both China and Japan. It was while in the Orient that he contracted the disease that was so to torment him as to compel him to take his own life...
Love in the Tropics, a steam-heated drama of love in the tropics, was trite torment...
...that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that he was off for the War. In No More Parades (1925) he endured a very special and ingenious kind of hell in a base camp, where his wife, Sylvia, and scandal about himself and Valentine, turned up to torment him and to hamper his official conduct as not even red tape and a thousand childish soldiers could have done. His maddening integrity, that alone, was the factor that saved a bad local situation and led indirectly to the establishment of a Single Command...
...torment to collegiate dudes who, unable to leave their eskimohair coats at home, sweltered in the New Jersey sun, a plunging Navy team came from behind to beat Princeton...